Doris Lessing, 1984. © Marianne Majerus

The Nobel Laureate, Doris Lessing, died in November 2013 at the age of 94. She was a visionary writer whose prolific output caught the ebb and flow of cultural, social and political ideas for over half a c…

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Scullion, Val, Val Scullion. "Doris Lessing". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 20 November 2002; last revised 03 December 2013.
[http://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=2703, accessed 11 March 2014.]

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